Movies like House of the Dead

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House of the Dead (2003)
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House of the Dead (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity in the House of the Dead... Prequel to the House of the Dead video games.
Style: scary, stylized, rough, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, tense, disturbing, psychological, dark ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, island, brutality, mad scientist, danger, party, gory, teenage life, chaos, video game, undead, monster, murder, mercilessness, supernatural, zombie attack, living dead, female fighter, infected, ship, violence, death, blood, apocalypse, superhero ...
Time: 2000s, contemporary
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c., seattle washington
Keyword: gangsters, challenge

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Most similar movies to House of the Dead

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, rough, suspenseful and serious films with plots about danger, gore, violence, blood, shot to death, blood splatter and zombie mostly in Horror, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like House of the Dead: World War Z (2013), Planet Terror (2007), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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World War Z (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Malta
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: zombie, virus, apocalypse, epidemic, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, deadly virus, survival, infected, end of the world, post apocalyptic, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, jurassic ...
Place: new jersey, new york, israel, philadelphia, seattle ...
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100%
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Planet Terror (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a ...
Style: bloody, black comedy, grindhouse, splatter, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, violent, dark humor, blood, zombie apocalypse, virus, apocalypse, survival horror, infection, military, infected, survival ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, year 2000
Place: texas, austin texas, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
House of the Dead 2 (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Guesta Verde University, the deranged Professor Curien is trying to bring back the dead, killing students for the experiment. There is an outbreak of zombies in the campus, and the government sends a NSA medical research team, formed by Dr. ...
Style: serious, slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, supernatural, chaos, soldier, danger, deadly creature, survival, military, plague, chaos and mayhem, antidote, college ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive ...
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, splatter, saga, disgusting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, virus, pandemic, post apocalyptic, chaos, end of the world, monster, female warrior, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, one woman army ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 2017
Place: washington d.c., usa
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41%
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A reboot of the "Resident Evil" franchise. Set in 1998, the intention is to re-create the 'terrifying visceral experience' of the first two games in the series, exploring 'the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser ...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Plot: zombie, virus, female warrior, infection, resident evil, mutant, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, one against many, one woman army, end of the world ...
Time: future, 2020s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
Style: suspenseful, scary, entertaining, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, monster, supernatural, heroine, zombie apocalypse, infected, survival, post apocalypse, danger, genetically altered, experiment ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2000s
Place: las vegas, salt lake city utah, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The dead have risen to feast on the flesh of the living, and just when it seems that all hope for humanity has been lost, bikini girls with machine guns take one last shot at saving mankind from certain extinction. In the near future, a deranged ...
Style: serious, rough, stylized, scary, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, katana, female protagonist, martial arts, supernatural, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, gory, chaos, mad scientist, female killer, survival ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, stylized, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, monster, infected, apocalypse, virus, undead, end of the world, mutation, blood, female warrior, supernatural ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, future
Place: los angeles, usa, tokyo, california, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA, Canada, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. It's a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against ...
Style: gothic, scary, suspense, apocalyptic, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, monster, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, post apocalypse, survival horror, virus, mutant, distopia, evil corporation, dark heroine, undead ...
Time: future, year 2004, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Day of the Dead (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the ...
Style: suspense, scary, stylized, rough, intense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, virus, apocalypse, quarantine, infection, epidemic, small town, survival, survival horror, post apocalyptic, brutality, transformation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put ...
Style: funny, horror comedy, not serious, humorous, scary ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: zombie, teenager, gory, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, friendship, survival, strip club, zombie attack, supernatural, youth, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, Croatia
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into a dhampir and attain immortality.
Style: exciting, scary, captivating, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, world war two, supernatural, female fighter, female protagonist, female vampire, battles, sword fight, nazi, danger, imaginary, good versus evil ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While doing undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of amazonian cannibals. Intrigued, Emanuelle and friends travel deep into the Amazon jungle, where they find that the supposedly ...
Style: sexy, grindhouse, disturbing, art house, suspense ...
Plot: exploitation, jungle, cannibalism, erotica, lesbian sex, sexploitation, voyeurism, sexual pleasure, cannibal, lesbianism, brutality, tribe ...
Time: 70s
Place: latin america, south america, new york, tanzania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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After Death (1989)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a group of mercenaries and they meet up with some other ...
Style: rough, apocalyptic, splatter, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: voodoo, zombie, beast, living dead, gory, undead, infected, american horror, zombie attack, jungle, supernatural, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Doom: Annihilation (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Doom: Annihilation follows a group of space marines as they respond to a distress call from a base on a Martian moon, only to discover it’s been overrun by demonic creatures who threaten to create Hell on Earth.
Style: scary, bloody, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: monster, mars, biopunk, zombie, secret laboratory, survival, violence, space marine, soldier, scientist, hell, space ...
Time: near future, future
Place: space western, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.9
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Zombi 3 (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into ...
Style: splatter, apocalyptic, suspense, epic, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, infection, living dead, plague, gory, exploitation, terrorism, zombie attack, virus, undead, desert island, dystopia ...
Time: 80s
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In this remake of the original classic film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food.
Style: scary, creepy, splatter, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, living dead, end of the world, gory, cemetery, zombie attack, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, survival, chaos, danger, cannibalism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Zombie (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, island, virus, zombie apocalypse, gory, apocalypse, shark, living dead, zombie outbreak, zombie attack, violence, monster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, italy, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most ...
Style: scary, stylized, apocalyptic, exciting, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, monster, virus, female fighter, zombie apocalypse, infected, infection, tough girl, plague, chase, pandemic ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s
Place: tokyo, washington d.c., moscow russia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.8
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Aftershock (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Chile
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mayhem and death follow when an earthquake traps a group of tourists in a Chilean town.
Style: suspense, serious, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, earthquake, forces of nature, survival, danger, escapades, violence spree, profanity, gory, natural disaster, brutality, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america, santiago chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.6
 287K
Resident Evil (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain ...
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, splatter, bloody ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, infected, virus, zombie apocalypse, artificial intelligence, monster, survival, bio weapon, woman with a gun, gory, experiment gone awry, apocalypse ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2002, near future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Dead and Deader (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Lt. Bobby Quinn is a Special Forces commando killed during a recon mission in the Cambodian jungle. But when Quinn interrupts his own stateside autopsy, he discovers that the rest of his dead squad has been resurrected with a ravenous apetite for ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, infection, plastic surgeon, supernatural, escapades, survival, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, deadly creature, danger, mad scientist, gory ...
Place: asia, cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.9
 58K
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge) is a hard nosed police chief in the year 2025. She and a police snatch squad are sent to Mars to apprehend a dangerous criminal James Williams (Ice Cube). Mars has been occupied by humans for some time and they ...
Style: suspense, scary, futuristic, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mars, zombie, alien, survival, supernatural, alien possession, martian, space, survival horror, apocalypse, chaos, ghost ...
Time: future, 22nd century, year 2001, 2000s
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 5.3
 23K
Beyond Skyline (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Indonesia, UK, China, Singapore
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
Style: captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing, space horror ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, rescue, spaceship, ufo, monster, invasion, evil alien, abduction, evolution, brutality, survival ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: laos, southeast asia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.1
 63K
Vampires (1998)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Style: scary, bloody, rough, cult classic, splatter ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, vampire hunter, gory, vampire slayer, transformation, death, blood, vengeance, female vampire, vampire bite, priest ...
Time: 90s
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.1
 15K
The Crazies (1973)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Style: grindhouse, scary, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: epidemic, virus, plague, infected, quarantine, infection, zombie, isolation, disaster, disease, military, survival ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, asia, vietnam, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.2
 1K
Dead Trigger (2017)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 2021 - 5 years after the outbreak of a mysterious virus that turned humans into bloodthirsty, undead beasts much of the world’s population has been decimated. When governments were unable to keep the disease at bay, the Contagion Special Unit was ...
Style: psychotronic, intense, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: virus, zombie apocalypse, zombie, female warrior, rescue mission, military, game, top secret, tough guy, battles, danger, post apocalyptic ...
Time: near future, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
 26K
Nightbreed (1990)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
Style: scary, dark fantasy, gothic, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: serial killer, monster, murder, afterlife, escape, obsessive quest, heroic mission, social misfits, creature, creature feature, psychiatrist, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.
Style: scary, demonic, religious horror, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: demon, supernatural, good versus evil, zombie, demonic possession, monster, brutality, on the run, save the world, trapped in a building, prostitute, temptation ...
Time: 90s, year 1917, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.2
 15K
Far Cry (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jack Carver, a former member of the Special Forces takes the journalist Valerie Cardinal to an Island to visit her uncle Max who is working in a Military complex on the Island. As they arrive Valerie gets captured by the minions of Doctor Krüger. ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, gaming, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, chase, island, soldier, heroes, isolation, race against time, laboratory, escapades, journalism, tropical island, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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